Time to end Daylight Saving?

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Originally Posted By: Snagglefoot
Gives you more time to play 18 holes after work in the summer. Some of the towns in my part of the woods have decided not to change time. Also the province of Saskatchewan in Canada does not change because " Cows do not wear watches".
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Exactly. More time for golf after work. I love DST!

That the Russians don't do DST is even more reason that we should. Do they even play golf in Russia?
 
Originally Posted By: Leo99
Originally Posted By: Snagglefoot
Gives you more time to play 18 holes after work in the summer. Some of the towns in my part of the woods have decided not to change time. Also the province of Saskatchewan in Canada does not change because " Cows do not wear watches".
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Exactly. More time for golf after work. I love DST!

That the Russians don't do DST is even more reason that we should. Do they even play golf in Russia?

Maybe we should ban golf? Just ruins a nice walk anyways.
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Or move further north? When I was in Northern Alberta, had a tee off time of 11:00 during the summer.
 
Spring forward and leave it there, permanently. I appreciate every hour of daylight I can get after work.

It's not like the sun leaps forward or backward twice a year.
It's not to correct for a sudden but momentary total lack of terrestrial rotation twice a year.
It's man-made nonsense.
 
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Originally Posted By: dnewton3
Spring forward and leave it there, permanently. I appreciate every hour of daylight I can get after work.

It's not like the sun leaps forward or backward twice a year.
It's not to correct for a sudden but momentary total lack of terrestrial rotation twice a year.
It's man-made nonsense.

Your last line comment is a fact. There is so much of that in this day and age.
 
Leave it one way or the other. While it is nice to stay out late with light in summer, kids' safety is also important so IMO the edge goes to falling back and leaving it.
 
Originally Posted By: JLTD
kids' safety is also important so IMO the edge goes to falling back and leaving it.


I suppose this varies depending on school schedules and where exactly within each time zone you are located. Around here, I see kids waiting at bus stops at 7 am. During winter months, even with falling back to standard time, it is still dark at 7 am, so I don't see how falling back helps.
 
Most kids today are supervised at bus stops by an adult, often in a car... DST should be yr round, because it allows for more after work work. In MA there some noise about going on Atlantic time,because it gets late early heeyah.
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benefit: you don't wake up at 5am because of sunlight, you have more time in the evening that's sunny (to do outdoor stuff)
disadvantage: you end up doing too much and sleep late, and that 2 adjustment weeks every year sucks.
 
Originally Posted By: Kira
Don't misinterpret my friend.

I'm open to any and all SOLID arguments for or against DST.

It's beginning to sound like (from our limited sample) esthetics has a lot to do with this.

I happen to be with the folk who prefer some evening Sunshine. It wouldn't be worth it if lots of school children needed to become traffic casualties.

I just need real numbers and am not trying to be difficult.


You are asking for hard evidence with regards to an idea that was a joke to begin with. As others have mentioned it wasn’t done for any scientific purpose. They did it to screw around with daylight back when lighting wasn’t abundant and cheap.
 
I'd rather it be pitch black outside when I'm at work, and light the whole time I'm out. If you work in an office building you don't see daylight for 8+ hours anyway.
 
Originally Posted By: andyd
In MA there some noise about going on Atlantic time,because it gets late early heeyah.
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Which is essentially what Florida is doing. Call it switching to EDT year round, but it's really just moving to AST, and staying there.
 
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I'd be happy with year-round DST.

Frankly, a few minutes of sunlight during my walk to the car/morning drive/walking into work doesn't make a difference to me. About the only sunlight I see during the day is if I take my mid-day walk around campus, which I try to do weather permitting, but DST doesn't affect that.

On the other hand, what DST DOES do is give me an extra hour of daylight in the evening. Since I don't have a proper garage, but rather just a car port, it means that I have some hope of actually getting some car work done. On days where I work until 6:30 or 7:30(quite often) DST means that I actually get to have some sunlight after I leave work. On those same days, I often go in to work later in the day(10:00 or 11:00) and DST means an extra hour of good quality sleep in the morning before the sun comes up.

So, put to vote, I'd say go to DST year round.
 
DST is stupid, leave the clocks alone one way or the other. The argument that the days are longer in the summer because of DST is also dumb. Where I live the daylight hours at the summer solstice are over 5 hours longer compared to the winter solstice naturally no DST needed.
 
Originally Posted By: Indydriver
No. My golf game runs late into the evening on occasion.


Is this a joke on a previous govenor?
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Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Originally Posted By: Kira
It wouldn't be worth it if lots of school children needed to become traffic casualties.

I don't follow.

Up here, even when falling back to standard time for winter, it is still dark when kids get picked up by school buses.

For the record, I don't want to end DST. I want DST to be observed all year long.


Kids don't walk to school anymore they want door to door service, bus stop at every house so the kiddies don't play in traffic.
Then they wonder why the morons fall down open manhole covers and walk into traffic following something on their cell phones.
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